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Key Benefits of Satellite Communications

Small businesses, schools, remote farms, NGOs, UN agencies, Internet Service Providers, air traffic controllers, financial services, banks, supermarkets and other enterprises in Africa choose Alldean VSAT satellite networks for a number of key reasons:

Network Capacity Expansion

Satellite technology provides a uniquely convenient environment for accommodating network and bandwidth expansion.

Indeed, one of the biggest wide-area network challenges is the ever-increasing need for additional bandwidth to support new applications. In a terrestrial environment this is especially challenging since, if a new application is large enough, new terminal components (routers, cards, etc.) have to be ordered - and increased bandwidth has to be commissioned - separately at each site, in conjunction with local third-party vendors. In many cases, the cost of expanding network capacity on a terrestrial network can actually exceed the original cost of deploying the network. Plus, such an upgrade, if economically feasible, can take months, since new circuits have to be ordered and a field technician must visit every site.

With a satellite network, network expansion is extremely easy and comparatively inexpensive. First, all bandwidth allocation is controlled at the hub, so increasing network capacity is as simple as increasing the amount of bandwidth allocated to the network. And, while in some cases additional equipment may be required at the hub to support the increased capacity, this hardware can most often be installed in a matter of days. More importantly, no hardware changes or field technician visits are required at the remote sites, since Alldean's VSAT equipment is designed out of the box to handle maximum bandwidth requirements.